Books with author Joseph Parent

The ultimate guide to improving your golf game – and your mind – in every round you play, Golf: The Art of the Mental Game - Text Only Edition, features a hundred brilliant game-changing tips for improving any golfer’s score. Best-selling author and PGA/LPGA golf instructor Dr. Joseph Parent presents everything from the essentials of playing the game to the keys for keeping your composure and that mental edge over your opponents.Dr. Parent’s first book, ZEN GOLF, has been the best-selling mental game book for many years, with a quarter-million copies in print worldwide. Golf: The Art of the Mental Game - Text Only Edition, his latest book, provides golfers with 100 of Dr. Parent’s most powerful tips to prepare for, execute, andequally importantrespond to the results of any golf shot. As is has for thousands of other golfers, it will help you play with more consistency, experience less frustration, and shoot lower scores.

In this ground-breaking approach to golf instruction, Dr Joseph Parent, both a noted PGA Tour coach and a respected Buddhist teacher, draws on this natural connection to teach golfers how to play with more consistency and less frustration, and consequently how to lower their scores. 'When body and mind are synchronized, we can uncover our inherent dignity and confidence. The ultimate goal is not just to help people become better golfers, but better human beings.' Zen Golf offers a fresh perspective for golf and for life. Instead of focusing on what's wrong with us -- what's broken, flawed or missing -- we can take the attitude that there is something fundamentally, essentially right with us. In chapters such as 'How to Get from the Practice Tee to the First Tee', 'You Practice What You Fear', and 'How to Enjoy a Bad Round of Golf', author Joseph Parent shows how to make one's mind an ally rather than an enemy: how to stay calm, clear the interference that leads to bad shots, and eliminate bad habits and mental mistakes. Rather than an instruction manual that takes you through a systematic programme, it is a collection of brief chapters offering the wisdom of traditional Zen stories and teachings distilled from a lifetime of actual lessons with golfers, many of whom are PGA professionals. Continued success at golf (and any other endeavour) requires preparation, action and response -- these form the framework for the instructions presented in Zen Golf. Applied correctly, they will help every reader of this unique book to achieve their peak performance.

Part inspiration, part information narrative for our story is based on walking meditation, also known as mindful walking; an active practice that requires you to be consciously aware and moving in the environment rather than sitting with your eyes closed. Just as The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo's mega-selling book (over 4 million copies sold worldwide) provides readers with a life/spiritual philosophy embedded in the how-to of minimalism (with practical tips for de-cluttering of one's home), A Walk in the Wood provides a narrative grounded in the simple act of slowing down, observing what is around us, and being present. Appealing to adults who are actively searching ways to join the JOMO movement (Joy of Missing Out and being content just “being”), A Walk in the Wood also makes for a perfect gift for stressed-out family members and friends.

Highly acclaimed poetry-art journal, detailing an autobiographical 5 year spiritual journey from 2000 through 2005, centering around the internal struggles of a deeply connected relationship with a dear friend who turned out to be a lesbian, and the death of a close friend. Originally published as a form of closure, it's had unexpectedly strong and touching reactions.